October 4, 2012 3:09pm EDTOctober 4, 2012 1:31pm EDTMissouri freshman receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, the most touted recruit in the nation last year, was arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession. Two teammates, receiver Levi Copelin and linebacker Torey Boozer were also arrested, and are suspended.

Three Missouri freshman football players, including Dorial Green-Beckham, the nation’s No. 1-ranked recruit of 2012, were arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of possession of marijuana.

University police told the Columbia Daily Tribune that an officer found Green-Beckham, wide receiver Levi Copelin and linebacker Torey Boozer in a white Lincoln Navigator in a parking lot near Memorial Stadium.

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All three players will be suspended for Saturday’s game vs. Vanderbilt, according to the school. Two others, Harold Brantley and Brandon Holified, were in the car, but were not arrested. They will be suspended as well.

Earlier on Wednesday, Tigers coach Gary Pinkel said Green-Beckham was “doing a good job” and “working very, very hard” through the team’s first five games.

“He’s very humble,” Pinkel told reporters on the weekly SEC coaches conference call. “He’s always got a great attitude. And he wants to be great.”

Green-Beckham has struggled to make his mark with the Tigers’ offense thus far, catching just seven passes. But his one reception in Saturday’s win at UCF was an 80-yarder for his first touchdown.

“I think that was a glimpse of what we have here,” Pinkel said. “He’s the kind of guy that, as he matures, he’ll be a guy who can change the game any time he touches the football.

“After looking at that play, it would be wise for us to get him the ball as much as we can.”

That momentum toward a bigger role for the 6-6, 228-pounder now seems to have crashed to a halt.

Green-Beckham described his goals for his freshman season to Sporting News in August: “My dreams and expectations are to go out there and be the best player I can be, push myself more than I did in high school, and try to make things right on and off the field.”

He now has failed in that last regard.

Each of the players was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of possession of 35 grams of marijuana or less. They were released with a summons to appear in court.